EPIC 10-PIECE-BAND TOUR HITTING CITIES ACROSS WESTERN CANADA THROUGH JANUARY AND FEBRUARY

JUNO-NOMINATED LATEST ALBUM
THE RECKLESS ONE OUT NOW

TORONTO, ON – December 16, 2021 – After a whirlwind year that saw acclaimed soul-based group, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, celebrate a JUNO nomination for their 2020 release, The Reckless One (Gypsy Soul Records), and hot off a 50-date European tour, the band is thrilled to make their return to national stages at the start of 2022. Kicking off on January 26^th, the 10-piece band will embark on their epic ‘Feel Good Tour’ across western Canada (full details can be found below).

"After the last couple of years we have all had, I wanted to do something really special for our audiences,” says Martin. “We don't often get to tour with the full band so I was determined to make that happen – even if it means taking a huge band across Canada in the middle of a Canadian winter. We are already in rehearsals and I can tell you that it is one of the most exciting and energetic shows I've ever put together. Audiences are going to be feeling good after the show!"

With the worldwide pandemic wrecking utter havoc upon the careers of many musicians, Samantha Martin and Delta Sugar elected to use their time off the road to finish and release their latest tour-de-force, the astonishingly powerful, funky and deeply soulful The Reckless One (released in November 2020).

The follow up to 2018’s JUNO-nominated Run To Me, The Reckless One represents another massive step forward for Samantha Martin as a songwriter, singer, arranger and band leader. Eleven of the album’s twelve songs were either co-written or solely composed by the multi-talented, multi-faceted artist. The one non-original, a funk infused cover of Bob Dylan’s Meet Me in the Morning, fuses Dylan’s lyric in a cataclysmic clash with the sensibilities of the Meters and the hurricane force of Howlin’ Wolf and Tina Turner at their rawest. It simply has to be heard to be believed.

Produced by Darcy Yates and Renan Yildizdogan, The Reckless One demonstrably builds on the strengths of Samantha Martin and Delta Sugar’s last album. Martin’s lyrics, set to a panoply of intoxicating, ear worm melodies, tend to focus on the vicissitudes of love: desire, disappointment and, when everything works out, emotional and sexual satisfaction. The album’s twelve tracks cover a lot of ground, including 12/8 gospel infused soul ballads such as I’ve Got a Feeling and Better to Have Never; funk-inflected tracks like Love is All Around; stomping four-on-the-floor dance numbers epitomized by Don’t Have To; and the Wall of Sound influenced, Sacrifice, which was featured as pick of the week in Rolling Stone Magazine.

The album went on to earn the group a 2021 JUNO nomination for Blues Album of The Year, as well as several Maple Blues Award nods in both 2020 and 2021, it topped the Canadian Album, Blues Album, and Soul Blues Album charts with Roots Music Report for several months, hit #1 on the Living Blues Charts out of the US, and #1 on The International Blues Broadcasters Charts out of the UK.

2022 TOUR DATES:
January 26 – Saskatoon, SK – Winterruption @Amigos Cantina (presented by Broadway Theatre)
January 27 – Sherwood Park, AB – Festival Place
January 28 – Calgary, AB – Festival Hall (presented by Calgary Folk Music Festival)
January 29 – Lethbridge, AB – Southminster United Church (presented by Geomatic Attic)
January 30 – Cranbrook, BC – Key City Theatre
February 1 – Golden, BC – Golden Civic Centre (presented by Kicking Horse Culture)
February 3 – Burnaby, BC – Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
February 4 – Campbell River, BC – Tidemark Theatre
February 5 – Victoria, BC – Hermann's Jazz Club Upstairs (Victoria Jazz Society)

About Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar
Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar’s debut release, 2015’s Send the Nightingale, was a stripped-down affair consisting of Martin, her two co-singers, and two guitars. For 2018’s Run to Me, Martin elected to record her emotionally wrought material with an expanded band, augmenting the core of Delta Sugar’s gospel-infused harmonies with a full rhythm section, piano, organ and an ever-so-soulful horn section. The Reckless One continues in the same trajectory, further expanding the palate of sounds with vibes, mellotron, Wurlitzer, Hammond and Farfisa organs plus strings.

Send the Nightingale was a stunning achievement which garnered four Maple Blues nominations in 2016, was regularly featured on the CBC, topped the blues charts on Stingray radio and propelled the group onto the stages of all the major Canadian festivals and clubs coast to coast. Subsequent to the album’s release, Martin was nominated three years in a row as Female Vocalist of the Year at the Maple Blues Awards. Continuing to build on the group’s steam rolling momentum, in 2019 Run To Me garnered another four Maples Blues nominations, a Juno nomination and paved the way for Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar’s assault on European club and concert stages. Starting with a blitzkrieg attack consisting of 42 club dates in six weeks in early 2019, followed by an equally impressive European tour in fall of 2021, four tours and a three years later the group is being booked at a number of major European and Canadian Festivals coming in 2022.

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